TELEGRAM TO THE YAKUTSK CONFERENCE OF THE POOR[3]

Written:Written on April 9 or 10, 1921Published:First published In 1932 inLenin Miscellany XX.

      Printed from the text in M. K. Ammosov’s hand with Lenin’s corrections and additions.Source:Lenin
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Presidiumof the Conference of the Poor,Yakutsk

ComradeLenin has asked me to convey his greetings
to your conference. Comrade Lenin expresses the hope that
thetoiling masses[the poor] of Yakutia liberated from
the tsarist oppression, and who are being emancipated
from enslavement by the
toyons,[4]will awaken, and with
the help of the Russian workers and peasants will take the
way of [communism]full consolidation of the power of
the working people themselves.

Ammosov[1]Member of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee

Iagree with the indicated
corrections.[2]

LeninNotes[1]Belowthat the following had been written by Lydia Fotieva
and crossed out by Lenin: “Ammosov requests permission to send
this telegram.”—Ed.[2]Lenin’scorrections are in heavy Roman type.—Ed.[3]Thetelegram was in reply to a message of greetings received by    

the C.P.C. on April 9, 1921, from the Yakutsk Conference of the    

Poor (Second Churapchinsk Non-Party Conference).[4]Toyons—Yakut princelings (tribal chiefs).

[1]Belowthat the following had been written by Lydia Fotieva
and crossed out by Lenin: “Ammosov requests permission to send
this telegram.”—Ed.

[2]Lenin’scorrections are in heavy Roman type.—Ed.

[3]Thetelegram was in reply to a message of greetings received by    

the C.P.C. on April 9, 1921, from the Yakutsk Conference of the    

Poor (Second Churapchinsk Non-Party Conference).

[4]Toyons—Yakut princelings (tribal chiefs).